Idwiw

I have unlocked my VIM, but I can't seem to convert my movies correctly in order to view them. Can someone please help me with this? I have a cross country trip coming up very soon and would like to be able to play movies for my passengers.

gamegenie

There's a program called Aura Video Converter, it's free if you get it from downloads.cnet.com

This program will do the conversion for you simple in batch form so you can queue up multiple videos in converting.

The resolution of the video you want to have it set to is 720x576.
The Bitrate you want to set the video is 2000KB
The framerate you want to set the video is 25fps

For audio use .mp3 as the codec
Set the bitrate for that to 320kps
and the Sample Rate to 48,000 hz

gamegenie

oh and the video codec you should use is .xvid

Civuck

25fps is a European video spec. Any idea if 30fps works for North American cars?

gamegenie

Well this car is a European car being sold here in the US. Those specs are based off what the MMI will handle, which resulted with me making over 150 music videos for my MMI.

Idwiw

Thank you very much! It worked! Couldn't use Aura Video Converter because the trial version only lets me convert 3 mins worth of video, but I was able to use other converters with those specs!

arU4ic

Its a simple display, it will show any FPS, but yes, I've tested 24 and 30 fps on my US S3 - and both work - that is until the car is moving then like all of us here, the video stops displaying.

gamegenie

on the Aura did you get it from Cnet Download? For a while they had a version that had no limits, it's the one I currently use and have installed on multiple systems. Free.


Glad to hear that the given configuration worked for you.

gamegenie

he unlocked VIM.

I did a while back too, put a lot of music videos on my MMI, in large part thanks to Youtube and VEVO.

Now I hardly use it.

Greg Elmassian

Went on a trip recently, and having a movie makes the trip a lot shorter than just music, even if I did not watch it.. much...

Greg